Solana announced a seed funding round of $7.7 million for Saber
Saber climbs the leaderboard among Solana projects by TVL
Meanwhile, SOL fluctuates in a falling wedge, awaiting a bullish breakout
YEREVAN (CoinChapter.com) – Solana-based Saber will expand its talent and partnerships upon receiving seed funding. Meanwhile, SOL price expects a bullish wedge breakout.
Who is funding Saber?
Notable investors have put their trust in the development of Solana’s Saber platform in a $7.7 million seed funding round. Race Capital led the fundraiser, followed by Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital, Jump Capital, Multicoin Capital, etc.
Race Capital has invested in significant crypto and non-crypto projects such as Binance, Slack, and FTX in their early stages. So, the interest of investors alike reflects market optimism.
Saber co-founder and CEO Dylan Macaliano shared that they would direct the funding toward expanding their talent, improving marketing and business development, as well as product development.
For DeFi to reach millions of users and trillions in value, we need a blockchain that can handle mass scale.
Due to its low transaction costs and high performance, we believe Solana is that blockchain.
The announcement on July 27 followed a stagnation of the Solana digital currency after a brief bounce off the $23 support. After the news broke, the price soared in an intraday increase of 12% on July 29. The high-low spike inched 19%.
At the time of press, SOL is hovering around $31, which is quite a jump (33%) since the bounce. Yet, the increase may not necessarily be due to the Saber funding, as Solana has multiple project developments underway.
Solana is a delegated-proof-of-stake (dPoS) blockchain ecosystem that hosts cross-chain exchanges. The unique proposition of Solana is allegedly the increased speed and security due to the Proof-of-History protocol for timestamping transactions.
As opposed to Bitcoin that allocates timestamps to grouped transactions in blocks, Solana-based nodes have continuous timing.
As the highest-ranking altcoin in terms of Year-to-Date (YTD) around 1500%, SOL hopes to compete with Ethereum in the future.
Saber exchange based on Solana allows stablecoin and wrapped coin swaps and also yield-earning deposits for its investors. The dapp is among the top-runners by total value locked (TVL) on Solana, hoping to secure the lead with more partnerships.
The recent jump in the SOL/USD pair further formed a falling wedge pattern that started in June, despite the recent rally among other cryptocurrencies. The downward trend is slowly losing momentum to result in a bullish breakout, as the pattern predicts.
Nonetheless, the wedge band is not too narrow, so the breakout is less likely to happen soon. Instead, a gradual drop may follow the latest jump and conclude in an upswing in mid-August at this rate.
Besides fighting the resistance of the wedge’s upper bound, SOL has been resting on another support level at $33.31. After a confluence of these lines on July 24, the price dropped.
Such downturns happen when investors predict that the resistance has conquered the support, and thus, the price is peaking. Therefore, they increase the selling pressure.
The strength of this resistance may persist further, but a bullish breakout in the Solana price is a plausible scenario as the wedge converges.
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